The trials and tribulations of trying to knit in the middle of the English Channel

November 14, 2005

What a Weekend!

The weather forcast (as always) was completely wrong :-)

Saturday dawned clear and totally windless so windsurfing was out of the question. DH decided to continue with the DIY and between spells of helping him out I managed to clear all the laundry and washing up and knit furiously on his rigging gloves. I even managed to do a solid hour on his gloves while Dancing Daughter was at Musical Theatre.

On the way to musical theatre we popped into our LYS to pick up some yarn to make a scarf for DD who spent £18!!!! on a hat in Jersey last week. I tell you it nearly broke my heart to see all that money go on a simple single crochet, peruvian style hat which I could have whipped up in an afternoon! We managed to find some yarns of a very similar colours and I promised her that as soon as her dad's gloves were done I would start on it.

Sunday dawned bright, windy and cold! The winds recently have been southerly but they swung right round to the north east - straight from Siberia!

The morning was spent knitting away on the rigging gloves while DH read the papers and we listened to the mellow sounds of Jamie Callum. By one o'clock the rigging gloves/mittens where done!

Broad Street Gloves/Mittens from Knitty with the mitten flaps up

Rigging gloves ( as they will now forever be known) with the mitten flaps down.

The only modifications I made was to make the thumb "topless" so that it is possible to fiddle with rope and I used a sock toe decrease instead of the star decrease in the pattern

I was unable to go windsurfing in the afternoon as I had to fetch Skateboarding Son from the airport and take Dancing Daughter to a final Audition for Seussical the Musical.

This gave me a chance to knit on the scarf. I decided to try an experiment, I had a go at knitting the scarf width ways in the round, and then "gulp" steeking it to make the fringe

The yarn we chose was chunky and even though there were 160 stitches it grew so quickly! By 10 o'clock last night It was knitted, steeked, edges single crocheted and fringe knotted. All it needs now is a good blocking to get rid of the curling:-)

Sorry it's a bit out of focus - I hadn't had my first cup of coffee yet this morning :-)

To finish of a sucsessful weekend, Dancing Daughter got a phone call to say she has the part she really really wanted. She is going to be Miss Gertrude McFuzz ( great name) in next years production of Seussical the Musical and..... I got an email form Magknits saying that they have accepted another one of my designs!